(Orders of the day by Henriot, Vent?se 27.) "I have
to request my brethren in arms not to take any rations whatever. This
little deprivation will silence the malevolent who seek every
opportunity to humble us." - Ibid.,359. "On Floreal 29, between five
and six o'clock in the morning, a patrol of about fifteen men of the
Bonnet Rouge section, commanded by a sort of commissary, stop
subsistences on the Orleans road and take them to their section."
[76] Dauban, 341. (Letter of the Commissioner on Subsistences,
Germinal 23.) "The supplies are stolen under the people's eyes, or
what they get is of inferior quality." The commissioner is surprised
to find that, having provided so much, so little reaches the
consumers.
[77] Archives des Affaires ?trang?res, vol.1411. (Reports of August
11-12 and 31, and Sept. 1, 1793.) - Archives Nationales, F. 7,
31167.) (Reports of Niv?se 7 and 12, year II.)
[78] Dauban, "Paris en 1794, 60, 68, 69, 71, 82, 93, 216, 231. -
Schmidt, "Tableaux de Paris," 187, 190. - Archives Nationales, F. 7,
31167. (Report of Leharivel, Niv?se 7.) - The gunsmiths employed by
the government likewise state that they have for a long time had
nothing to eat but bread and cheese.
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